How To Make A Door Open Or Slide

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How to make a door open or slide.

Under certain circumstances such as a buildup of dirt a sliding glass door begins to stick. There are holes on your sliding glass door that conceal the adjusting screws to these rollers. It was always in the way when open. Which means fewer pieces and cuts and that means easier to build.

First slide open the door completely and remove the head stop. I designed this barn door to be visually sleek and modern. Sometimes a door latch will be stiff wriggling shaking or agitating your slide might help. Slip the long side of your slide through the door.

Work the slide towards you. Then lift the door up and out of the track laying it down carefully across two sawhorses. Use your other hand to pull on the door so that when the latch is out of the hole in the doorjamb the door pulls open voila. Door is difficult to open and slide.

Take it down and replace it with a sliding barn door. In this video i show how to fix a sliding glass door that is very difficult to slide. Never leave the glass door unattended. On my door the holes had plastic plugs in them.

Not only did it solve the problem but it added another element of visual interest to the room. Sliding doors are very heavy very breakable and very expensive this is a two person job. Inside a standard sliding glass door there are adjustable rollers that help it slide back and forth on the track.